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Psychology of Unusual Experience

The human brain is a very complex device. No one can fully understand it as yet. Many people such as psychologists have studied human reactions many events. The Psychology of Unusual Experience is not that often covered. I will be looking at this form of psychology in reference to paranormal phenomena. However, its not just paranormal events that would incorporate this form of psychology. It basically covers emotions such as love also. No one can fully understand this emotion, it can make those who experience it react in the same fashion as those who have experienced fear, So does love bring with it fear, It almost certainly does. How many people have been afraid of being hurt, hurting someone else or simply just afraid of love itself. Anyway, we are not looking at love. The same reactions I was talking about would be the increase of the heart rate, the increase in heat and changes in breathing patterns. These are all sensations felt when you are in the first stages of love.
They are also the same sensations felt when you are in the grip of fear. That is mainly what I want to look at today. Fear is a very powerful emotion also, and like love, it can make us do some very strange things.
I have been monitoring the effects of fear on people in an alleged paranormal environment since I started attending investigations into paranormal phenomena. There noticeable signs in a person who is experiencing it, the eyes often become much bigger, the pulse rate rises sharply, the breathing will either become much more rapid or even more shallow, The brain simply scrambles and it becomes hard to think, and in really extreme circumstances, the muscles will freeze up. This is known as paralysis. It is only in very extreme circumstances that this will be experienced.

So, In relation to paranormal investigations, when you enter a location with a known past of paranormal occurrences you are automatically in an unusual situation. Even if no phenomena are encountered, you may experience fear in its slightest form. Your brain will react to this change in situation and the psychology of unusual experience takes over. You will start to think differently than you would in your everyday activities. This is certainly true of myself, I adopt a much more professional attitude when I am on location. This is my brains way of blocking out the fear or unusualness of the situation. This is also a way of combating the psychology of the situation.
I will be paying very close attention to other members of the team on future investigations, noting their reactions to any phenomena experienced. In the past I have been cuddled almost to death by one member of a team, the person in question wouldnt let me more that a foot away from them. This kind of reaction is disruptive to my role in the investigation. I was kept away from the medium, so I couldnt make note of the information he was giving. I could not explore the location as much as I would like to and carry out the experiments needed. This effected the investigation overall. To be honest, I couldnt work out why this person had chosen to on the investigation in the first place.
I have also seen people go completely the other way and get over excited. This is also a bad thing on an investigation. When you are over excited you will interpret natural occurring events as paranormal phenomena. Any investigation where there have been a number of misreports of phenomena is of course, Inaccurate. Some people are also just want to see phenomena so much that they really dont think at all and the very slightest thing is paranormal in there minds, and they wont be told otherwise. I was once in a situation where someone got very over excited by a pigeon in the upper areas of the location in question. I t was plain to hear that it was a pigeon, but this team member took some convincing of that fact.

These are all examples of the brain not functioning properly. So, how can we attempt to combat this form of psychology? This is a very difficult question and there are no two same answers of two separate people, it is very much an individual thing. For years now psychics have used something known to believers as psychic protection. The whole group forms a circle and the medium will often tell them that they are all to be surrounded by a white light, this light is the protection of god, and all that is good and will keep negative spirits at bay. This will at least in most cases give any investigator the ease of mind to carry out there role in the investigation. Are they really protected, or is it all in their heads, and a relief of the psychology of the unusual situation. I think it probably is as they now believe they are protected; this is how they will feel. Im not one to say that the protection doesnt work and I am not trying to suggest this as a fact, it is just another explanation from a Para psychological (or even psychological) point of view.
I will keep the readers posted on the results of my findings for this new research.